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You are the CEO of your own health

Courtesy of Holistic American Health Academy Member, Missy Anderson

What happened in the 1980s where everyone started gaining weight?

This chart tells a chilling story. Obesity obesity rates were relatively stable for decades. But something shifted around the late 1970s and early 1980s across all age groups for both women and men.

What changed?

It wasn't our biology it was our food environment.

In 1977 the US release the dietary goals for Americans urging citizens to cut fat and eat more carbohydrates especially complex ones like bread pasta and cereals.

A few years later the infamous food pyramid was born placing refined grains is the foundation of the ""healthy diet at the same time the process food industry saw a golden opportunity.

Big tobacco faced increasing regulations. Tobacco companies pivoted into food. Philip Morris, RJR Nabisco bought numerous food brands. These corporations use the same addiction science they have in selling cigarettes to engineer hyper palatable ultra processed foods designed to hijack our taste buds and override satiety. These modified foods not only affect our physical health but our mental health.

They told us to fear fat. So food companies stripped it out and added sugar, starch, and industrial seed oils instead.

This led to an explosion of obesity, type two diabetes, chronic disease, and mental health issues. ADD/ADHD diagnosis exploded.

Thankfully you can take back control with real, whole, nutrient-dense foods.

Think clean protein, healthy fats like avocado, colorful vegetables, and slow burning carbs like sweet potatoes. Choosing organic makes a big difference because you have fewer pesticides in your fruits and vegetable's.

Their blueprint for profit doesn't have to become the blueprint for your body.

You are the CEO of your own health.

Missy Camp Anderson

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